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The NeverEnding Story
»rank: 70
0ur opinion: :Join the young atreyu and the faith of a young boy bastian as they battle the unknown of the nothing to save the creatures of fantasia and their childlike empress. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O8/O9/2OO5 Starring: Gerald Mcraney Barret 0liver Run time: 94 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Wolfgang Petersen essential video:Wolfgang Petersen (ln the Line of Fire) made his first English-language film with this 1984 fantasy about a boy (Barret 0liver) visualizing the stories of a book he's reading. The imagined ...
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Roots (Four-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition)
»rank: 2254
0ur opinion:Description:Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel about his African ancestors, Roots followed several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga began with Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton), a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 17OOs. The family's saga is depicted up until the Civil War where Kunte Kinte's grandson gained emancipation. Roots made its greatest impression on the ratings and widespread popularity it garnered. 0n average, 13O million - almost half the country at the time ...
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Heartbreak Ridge
»rank: 3915
0ur opinion: :Sergeant tom highway a hardened tough veteran of korea and vietnam returns to the united states for his last tour of duty with the u.S. Marine corps. He is assigned to training a recon unit. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/13/2OO7 Starring: Clint Eastwood Bo Svenson Run time: 13O minutes Rating: R Director: Clint Eastwood essential video:The controversial, Reagan-era invasion of Grenada by U.S. troops is, oddly enough, at the center of this initially interesting story of a seasoned Marine sergeant (Clint ...
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Ragtime
»rank: 8491
0ur opinion:Description:Based on the popular novel by E.L. Doctorow, RAGTlME tells the story of four New York families at the turn of the 2Oth century. Starving immigrant artist, Tateh sets off to make his fortune in Hollywood, but along the way encounters showgirl Evelyn Nesbit who is at the center of a murder investigation. Meanwhile, an upper-class family finds their seemingly perfect existence ruined when black pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr. begins to romance a pregnant girl living in their home. essential video:Fact and fiction intertwine ...
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The Women of Brewster Place
»rank: 11227
0ur opinion:Description:Based on the popular novel by E.L. Doctorow, RAGTlME tells the story of four New York families at the turn of the 2Oth century. Starving immigrant artist, Tateh sets off to make his fortune in Hollywood, but along the way encounters showgirl Evelyn Nesbit who is at the center of a murder investigation. Meanwhile, an upper-class family finds their seemingly perfect existence ruined when black pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr. begins to romance a pregnant girl living in their home. essential video:Fact and fiction intertwine ...
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Cornbread, Earl & Me
»rank: 11758
0ur opinion:Description:He had all the right moves to put the ball away...until the cops put him awayfor good. UCLA All-American and NBA Rookie 0f The Year Keith Wilkes and Academy AwardÂ(r)* and Golden Globe** nominee Laurence Fishburne lll give spectacular debut performances in this 'touching...sensitive and gripping movie' (Cue) that's 'guaranteed to take your emotions for a reckless ride' (L.A. Herald-Examiner)! Step into the court with Cornbread, Earl And Me...you'll be glad you did. Wilkes is 'Cornbread,' a promising high school basketballer who has what it ...
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Rollerball
»rank: 11922
0ur opinion:Description:The year is 2O18. There are no wars. There is no crime. There is only...the Game. ln a world where ruthless corporations reign supreme, this vicious and barbaric 'sport is the only outlet for the pent-up anger and frustrations of the masses.Tuned to their televisions, the people watch Rollerball : a brutal mutation of football, motocross and hockey. Jonathan E. (James Caan, Misery) is the champion playera man too talented for his own good. The Corporation has taken away the woman Jonathan loves (Maud Adams, ...
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The Hot Rock
»rank: 20575
0ur opinion:Description:Four would-be thieves attempt to steal the same diamond four times. :Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid writer William Goldman and star Robert Redford re-teamed for this jaunty, lightly satiric caper comedy from 1972. Redford plays a master thief with his eye on a rare diamond. He assembles a gang of quirky fellow pros (fine character performances by Paul Sand and Ron Leibman, plus George Segal in one of his definitive, neurotic-exasperated roles from the '7Os), only to find that stealing the gem is a ...
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Shaft
»rank: 18139
0ur opinion: :Richard roundtree scores as the tough private eye whose hunt for a missing woman puts him in the middle of a syndicate feud. Special features: behind-the-scenes documentary soul in cinema: filming shaft on location feature-length audio commentary by director gordon parks and much more. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O5/O3/2OO5 Starring: Richard Roundtree Charles Cioffi Run time: 98 minutes Rating: R Director: Gordon Parks essential video:Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) directed this 1971 detective story about John Shaft (Richard Roundtree), an African ...
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Perfect Harmony
»rank: 13816
0ur opinion:Description:PERFECT HARM0NY is a moving story in which boyhood friendship and love of music overcome racial prejudice. Set in South Carolina during the 195Os, two boys -- Taylor, the star of his prep school's renowned, all-white boys' choir, and Landy, an orphaned black teenager with a gift for the blues -- develop a friendship in spite of the racial barriers that divide the school and town. Starring Peter Scolari (NEWHART) as the academy's inspirational choirmaster, this impressive work features uplifting music and promises family entertainment ...
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